Quotes About Intelligence

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

Action is movement with intelligence

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.